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Description: | Photocopy (104pp) of a very good ms account covering his service with the 43rd Company Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front, August 1917 - April 1918, containing interesting references to his duties as a despatch runner, conditions in the trenches and the hazards of gas, and graphic descriptions of the desolation of the Somme (where he moved to in early 1918), and his experiences of being in battle, particularly during Third Ypres (late 1917) and the German offensive of March 1918, when he was in the frontline trenches and narrowly escaped the German advance, describing the chaos of the British retreat and the prevalence of hand-to-hand fighting. The memoir provides an excellent illustration of the harsh conditions on the Western Front.
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Catalogue date 1998-09-19 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Aston, S J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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